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Germany: Prisoners, including: Arrangements for repatriation of prisoners (British...
Catalogue reference: FO 383/488
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This record is about the Germany: Prisoners, including: Arrangements for repatriation of prisoners (British... dating from 1919 in the series Foreign Office: Prisoners of War and Aliens Department: General Correspondence from.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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FO 383/488
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Date (When the record was created)
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1919
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Germany: Prisoners, including:
Arrangements for repatriation of prisoners (British and other nationalities):
- Repatriation via the Baltic: limit set at 6000 British prisoners.
- Transfer of prisoners of war from camps in Bavaria.
- General R H Ewart's mission to Berlin: two letters with observations on conditions in Berlin and reporting on the conduct of prisoners of war in German camps.
- Repatriation of Italian, Serbian and Portuguese officers held in Bavaria.
- Question regarding the absence of British prisoners from those embarked on the Trent at Bremerhaven.
- Alleged condition of prisoners at Gluckauf Saltworks, near Langesalza.
- Evacuation of prisoners from Gluckhauf prisoner of war camp confirmed by Dr R Römer.
- Disposal of vessels interned in Germany no longer required for transport of prisoners of war.
- International shipping arrangements for evacuation of prisoners, including: use of Willochra, and South West Miller in clearing prisoner of war camps in the Baltic.
- Use of British hospital ships in evacuation of sick regardless of nationality.
- Colonel Sumner Hayes sent to Silesia following unconfirmed French intelligence alleging prolonged detention of 300 British prisoners of war in mines near Sagan.
- Telegram with list of prisoner of war camps evacuated before 25 December 1917.
- Report (in German) by Captain Egger, with English translation by Ernst Wesely regarding the overbearing behaviour of English embarkation personnel at Danzig.
- Repatriation of German prisoners from the United Kingdom.
Code 1218 File 1 (to paper 916).
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- The National Archives, Kew
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File 1 (to pp.916).
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